Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After nearly two years of cancellations and dark houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Opera is finally returning to ...

In an episode from Mad Men (another excellent piece of art dating from 2007), Roger Sterling says it is particularly American to want a “tragedy with a happy ending.” Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice might ...

But not everyone goes in for this sort of thing. To Samuel Johnson opera was “an exotic and irrational entertainment.” It was the alarming mixture of drama and music that put off Dr. Johnson; neither ...

Franz Joseph Haydn was busily conducting the first rehearsal of his opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, when into the new King’s Theater walked the royal bailiffs with an order prohibiting the performance. King ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tacoma Opera has billed its production of Orfeo ed Euridice as its “first queer opera in 60 years.” (Justin Birchell/Justin ...

Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone attended “Orfeo” (twice), ...